After a couple of months of getting settled into our new Northcote home, its come time to attack the lawn and start eating our backyard. We've got lots of space and amaaazing soil and a landlord who says 'you plant vegetables anywhere everywhere is good'. so what are we waiting for?

well, a permablitz of course... (www.permablitz.net)

we're inviting all gardeners, gardener wannabes and 'non-gardeners' to come to our yard-warming blitz at
8 Waterloo Road, Northcote from 11.30 Sunday, September 10th.

exciting activities will include:

~ a skillshare on lawn-to-bed conversion / no-digs... then actually doing it (led by clare, bed maker extraordinaire)
~ a companion planting & backyard design workshop... then applying that knowledge to some of the new beds (led by megan, queen of the plant nerds)
~ a compost making skillshare & build-a-thon (if we have time & materials after no-digging)
~ a fruit tree maintenance skillshare (calling out for anyone who may have some knowledge to share)
~ hopefully a plant pathology 'what's going wrong' skillshare' (again, calling out for anyone who can help with this!)
~ a villi (something like yoghurt but easier) making workshop and eat-a-thon (thanks to adam the master of ferments)
~ a yoghurt cheese making workshop
~ muchos salsa dancing with the south american folk from the south side - www.codemo.org.au
~ sharing a well deserved meal
~ and becoming a movie star... or at least being filmed for a documentary being made on peak oil.
~ plus anything you want to bring to it...

It'd be fanastic if you could bring some food to share, seedlings to plant/swap, cuttings to swap, something that could be used as a trelise, hand trowels, pitch forks, shovels, spare precious compost, manure, lawn clippings, mulch, saw dust, friends, family, loved ones... or even just yourself.

Hope to see you then
Asha, Josie & Damian
9489 1784 / 0407 605 518 (A)
8 waterloo road, northcote